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Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level
Author: Saundra McGuire
The author introduces her readers, through the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful consequences of understanding themselves as learners.
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6 August 2022
Purdue Writing Lab
Author: Purdue
This website offers resources including writing, grammar, and style guides.
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The Adaptech Research Network
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managing test anxiety
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8 August 2022
The Restorative Benefits of Nature: Toward an Integrative Framework
Author: Stephen Kaplan
Turning to nature as a way to nourish focus. This resource will broaden the basket of strategies that practitioners and students can turn to, particularly in response to distractedness.
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6 August 2022
Motivation and procrastination
Author: Queens SASS
This is such a common topic in academic skills appointments, and I find myself pulling bits and pieces from this resource often. The questions are really good for getting students to reflect on what’s happening when they procrastinate—and the steps they’re willing to take to make a change.
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8 August 2022
Pomofocus: Pomodoro Timer Online
Author: Yuya Uzu
Pomofocus is a customizable pomodoro timer that works on desktop & mobile browser. The aim of this app is to help you focus on any task you are working on, such as study, writing, or coding.
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6 August 2022
Eisenhower Matrix
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Eisenhower Matrix provides a framework to prioritize and categorize tasks based on their importance and urgency. It is easy to use and understand and it can be adapted in many ways based on students’ needs and situation.
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8 August 2022
Cold Turkey: Your Future Self Will Thank You
Author: Cold Turkey Software, Inc.
Cold turkey is a software that you can download on your laptop/pc that blocks websites to eliminate distractions.
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Goal Setting & Motivation
Author: TRSM Academic Success Centre
Using a metaphor as “life as a tree”, draw yourself as a tree as you choose how to progress in your degree, define your success, and create goals.
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Scarcity: The new science of having less and how it defines our lives
Author: Eldar Shafir Sendhil Mullainathan
In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need.
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